How do nurses promote patient safety and improve quality at your workplace (or previous clinical setting)? What changes would you suggest be made on your unit or facility to improve a non-punitive culture of safety?

  

Your grade will be based on your thoroughness and completeness in answering each question. Each response must be based off of evidenced based research; I do not want your personal opinion. I want to know what you learned from the evidence you researched. You must include your resources cited in APA format.  Fifty percent will be deducted from any response that does not include outside resources.

 –  After researching and studying spirituality and religion, summarize how spirituality and religion differ? 

 –   How can a nurse provide spiritual care and assistance to a patient?

 –  Please explain the difference between culture and ethnicity. 

 –    How do you plan to become culturally competent and provide transcultural care?

 –  The Hot/Cold theory proposes that illnesses caused by heat or cold must be treated with substances having the opposite property. A Puerto Rican client believes she has arthritis because she rinsed her hands in cold water after washing her dishes in hot water. She believes if she eats “hot” foods like chili peppers, the symptoms will subside. Based on what you have learned about providing culturally competent care, how would you respond?  

 Jes How do you judge Palin’s quote? [“And who will suffer the most when they ration care? Effective strategy to oppose Democrats’ plans for health care reform or unethical scaremongering?

Palin’s quote was not only inaccurate, it could be said it was a scare tactic.  For those relying on politicians to define changes, especially as they relate to a lengthy new health care act, I view it as a scare tactic to sway voters against the ACA.  Nowhere in the ACA or AHCA does it enforce a “death panel” (Mason et. al., 2016). This quote from a politician is why it is so important for nurses to understand politics in health care and provide accurate, unbiased, and honest information. Reflect on what informs your judgment: commitment to advance care planning, analysis of facts, and/or political party loyalties?

When it comes to my judgement, research and understanding of the facts are key.  Had I simply listened to Palin, I would not have understood the changes in health care the ACA implemented.  Although far from perfect, this act did increase the number of Americans with health coverage to 20 million people and seeks to provide better health promotion, allowing nurses to practice to the full extent of their education and licensure (Collins, 2018). Is it right for nurses to endorse health reform legislation even if the legislation is not perfect? Does this apply to the recently failed American Health Care Act?

Few things in life are truly perfect.  As a nurse, I have learned you simply cannot make everyone happy and that applies to healthcare.  Nurses should seek to endorse healthcare policies that allow them to practice as nurses; teaching patients to be as independently healthy as possible.  This certainly applies to the failed AHCA.  Again, the debate is not over universal health coverage, but as to who should pay for it.  Nurses have identified the need for access to health care since the beginning of time.  Advocating and endorsing legislative that is supportive of this idea should be the nurses priority.   

 As the manager of a community hospital’s Emergency Department, you have been tasked with developing a policy to prevent patients from receiving ED services for non-emergent conditions. Prepare a policy draft to be reviewed by the hospital’s leadership team. This team includes legal counsel, physicians and registered nurses, as well as chief operating, financial, and executive officers. Your wording should be professional, and consistent with an organization’s policy (do not include statements that indicate opinion, personal views, or observations).      In an opening paragraph, summarize EMTALA and the hospital’s obligation to comply with it.     In a second paragraph, explain the need for and reasoning behind the policy.     In approximately 1 page, draft the policy to provide guidelines for all staff, including clinical providers when triaging patients who walk into the ED.     On a separate page, include a “Question & Answer” section. Provide six questions (and answers) that the leadership team is likely to ask after reading your policy draft.     Include a reference page, in APA format, with a minimum of three scholarly sources.     Please review the rubric to ensure that your assignment meets the criteria.     Submit the following the EMTALA Policy. 

Two Essays, one from the Urinary system , and the Other from the Endocrine system at least two pages each.